The temperature on November 3, 1926 was between 0.9 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
Day of marriage October 26, 1954
The temperature on October 26, 1954 was between 2.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
April 7 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
November 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
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